Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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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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

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Aristotle

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

James, William

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

Lennon, John

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William