Motivational Quotes

Life

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

- Giles, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

James, William

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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.

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Dickens, Charles

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Isaac Asimov

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote