Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Miller, Henry

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Lennon, John

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Menander of Athens

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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul