Motivational Quotes

Life

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)

Best Quotes about Life

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hume, David

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

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Kempton, Murray

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

11.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

12.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

14.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

16.

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

Samuel Butler

17.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

18.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

19.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

20.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

21.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

22.

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

Herold, Don

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

25.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

26.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

27.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Dante Alighieri

29.

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

Mountain, Marian

30.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

31.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

32.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

33.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

37.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

39.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

43.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst