Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Aleichem, Sholom

Best Quotes about Life

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

Mark Hodder

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Rogers, Will

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

11.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

14.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

15.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

16.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hume, David

30.

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

32.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

33.

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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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 good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie