Motivational Quotes

Life

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

- Gusoff, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dante Alighieri

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Moses, Grandma

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Truman Capote

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Larkin, Philip

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Linkletter, Art

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Robert Heinlein

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.