Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rogers, Will

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Horton, Doug

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Daniel Akst

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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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 at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Young, J. Z.

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Russell, Lady R.

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.