Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

- Reed, Lou

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

William Shakespeare

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.