Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Life

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

Gurney, Robert

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

10.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

12.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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 a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

19.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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 just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

22.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

25.

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

26.

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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

28.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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

32.

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

Conrad, Joseph

33.

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

Dawson, Roger

34.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

43.

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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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