Motivational Quotes

Life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Life

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Gurney, Robert

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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)

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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

Socrates

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

Young, J. Z.

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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 like Sanskrit read to a pony.