Motivational Quotes

Life

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Santayana, George

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

11.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

12.

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

Horace

13.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

19.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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

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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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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

26.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

27.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

28.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

43.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Tomlin, Lily