Motivational Quotes

Life

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

- Randy Pausch

Best Quotes about Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Fran Lebowitz

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Walpole, Horace

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Camus, Albert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Moses, Grandma

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]