Motivational Quotes

Life

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

- Boulanger, Nadia

Best Quotes about Life

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

To a wise man every day is a new life.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

William Shakespeare

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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 painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo