Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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 what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Stoppard, Tom

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

James, William

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.