Motivational Quotes

Life

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

- Havel, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Life

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Seneca

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Canetti, Elias

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

13.

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

Welsh, John

14.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

15.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

16.

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

Angelou, Maya

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

19.

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

21.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

24.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

25.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Delacroix, Eugene

28.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Lin-Chi

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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 foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

43.

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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, 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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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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