Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Life

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Nash, Ogden

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Hume, David

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Coallier, Steven