Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

12.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

17.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Larkin, Philip

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Kempton, Murray

29.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.