Motivational Quotes

Life

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Young, J. Z.

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Russell, Bertrand

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nash, Ogden

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Erhard, Werner

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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 tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Temple, Sir William

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.