Motivational Quotes

Life

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

- Baez, Joan

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

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

Hume, David

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

Broun, Heywood

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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 a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.