Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

- Radner, Gilda

Best Quotes about Life

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Dickens, Charles

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Allen, Fred A.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Byron, Lord

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine