Motivational Quotes

Life

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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 a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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 is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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