Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Life

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

18.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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 essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

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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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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

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Foreman, George

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Blake, William

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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