Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Robert Heinlein

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Butler, Samuel

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Keller, Helen

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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 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

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I think we're here for each other.