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

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Hubbard, Elbert

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

21.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Nash, Ogden

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony