Motivational Quotes

Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Life

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Camus, Albert

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Osler, Sir William

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.