Motivational Quotes

Life

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Life

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Butler, Samuel

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Shakespeare, William

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Caesar, Sid

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Nash, Ogden

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein