Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Seneca

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Lennon, John

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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 a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Broun, Heywood

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Santaguida, Paul

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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 without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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]

Bible

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.