Motivational Quotes

Life

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Mead, Margaret

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Seneca

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

James, William

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch