Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Life

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

10.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

11.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Proverb, German

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

Ciardi, John

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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

22.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

28.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

46.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack