Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

11.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

21.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

William Shakespeare

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

Truman Capote

25.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

27.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

32.

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

Ben Stein

33.

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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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

37.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Dante Alighieri

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia