Motivational Quotes

Life

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Life

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Camus, Albert

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

10.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

11.

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

James, William

12.

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

Carson, Rachel

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

26.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

32.

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 enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

34.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Butler, Philip

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

40.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

41.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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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