Motivational Quotes

Life

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Ben Stein

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Coallier, Steven

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Bacon, Francis

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

William Goldman

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

Shakespeare, William

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Carson, Rachel

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.