Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Facult, F. Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

Boese, Paul

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Rogers, Will

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

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

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Mark Hodder

11.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

18.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

19.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

20.

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

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

28.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

29.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

44.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus