Motivational Quotes

Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Life

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

10.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

11.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

13.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

14.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

15.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

19.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

20.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

21.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

22.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

23.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

24.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

26.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

27.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

28.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

30.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

31.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

32.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

33.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

34.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

36.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

37.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

38.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

39.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

40.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

43.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

45.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

48.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard