Motivational Quotes

Life

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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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

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Angelou, Maya

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Lennon, John

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Dryden, John

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey