Motivational Quotes

Life

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

- Brendan Gill

Best Quotes about Life

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Herold, Don

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Menander of Athens

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

James, William

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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.

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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.