Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gusoff, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Life

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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 -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Coallier, Steven

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Markiewicz, William

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Nash, Ogden

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Barrymore, John

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.