Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

18.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

22.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

23.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

25.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

26.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

34.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Making a life comes before making a living.

39.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

42.

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

Rogers, Will

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

46.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.