Motivational Quotes

Life

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Life

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

Samuel Butler

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Shakespeare, William

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Robert Heinlein

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.