Motivational Quotes

Life

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Best Quotes about Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

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

Walpole, Horace

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Seneca

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Dane, Frank

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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