Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is just a bowl of pits.

- Rodney Dangerfield

Best Quotes about Life

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

10.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

11.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

12.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

13.

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

Young, J. Z.

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

17.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

18.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

19.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

20.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

21.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

22.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

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

Markham, Edwin

27.

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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

29.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

30.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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

Walpole, Horace

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Russell, Lady R.

35.

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

36.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

37.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

41.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

43.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

45.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

47.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

48.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma