Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Life

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Santayana, George

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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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

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Moses, Grandma

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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 a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.