Motivational Quotes

Life

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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

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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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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

28.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

30.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

31.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

41.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

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