Motivational Quotes

Life

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

- Seeley, Sir John Robert

Best Quotes about Life

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

10.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

12.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

13.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

14.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

15.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

19.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

20.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

21.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

22.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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

Russell, Lady R.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

27.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

28.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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

30.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

31.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

32.

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

Dickens, Charles

33.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

41.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

42.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Kempis, Thomas

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

49.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody