Motivational Quotes

Life

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Life

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Steve Jobs

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

Erhard, Werner

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Santaguida, Paul

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Norman Thomas

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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 cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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 isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mountain, Marian

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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 cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen