Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

- Brown, William Adams

Best Quotes about Life

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Linkletter, Art

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

Platen

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Mountain, Marian

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

James, William

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

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.