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

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Robert Heinlein

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Cousteau, Jacques

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

James, William

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

21.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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

23.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

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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

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

28.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

30.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Rogers, Carl

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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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.