Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Life

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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.

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Dane, Frank

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

Antrim, Minna

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs