Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Lin-Chi

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Samuel Butler

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Cabell, James Branch

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.