Motivational Quotes

Life

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

- Coallier, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Coriolanus III

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Gellert

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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 a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul