Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

- Reed, Lou

Best Quotes about Life

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Debevoise, P. L.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

McMillan, Terry

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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 has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Platen

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

Harington, Donald

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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

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.