Motivational Quotes

Life

To live is not breathing it is action.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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

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

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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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Lennon, John

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.