Motivational Quotes

Life

Real life seems to have no plots.

- Burnett, Ivy Compton

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Mccarthy, Mary

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Blackie, Professor

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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 in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Linkletter, Art

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]