Motivational Quotes

Life

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Facult, F. Paul

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

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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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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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

John Lennon

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Menander of Athens

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

James, William

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey