Motivational Quotes

Life

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

- Boese, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

11.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

12.

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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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

14.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

17.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

20.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

28.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

31.

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

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

34.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

35.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

37.

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.

38.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

45.

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

Samuel Butler

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

49.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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