Motivational Quotes

Life

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Horton, Doug

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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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

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard