Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is just a bowl of pits.

- Rodney Dangerfield

Best Quotes about Life

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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 unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Markham, Edwin

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John