Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

- Carpentier, Georges

Best Quotes about Life

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Samuel Butler

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Seneca

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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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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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 like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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 action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder