Motivational Quotes

Life

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Linkletter, Art

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Ovid

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Nash, Ogden

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt