Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dorgan, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Life

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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 a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gellert

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey