Motivational Quotes

Life

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Newman, Peter C.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Angelou, Maya

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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 has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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