Motivational Quotes

Life

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Young, J. Z.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

30.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Southey, Robert

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

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

Austen, Jane

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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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Dante Alighieri

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Angelou, Maya