Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Dawson, Roger

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

Moses, Grandma

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Gellert

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Santayana, George

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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 is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor