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

Welsh, John

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

11.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

12.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

13.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

14.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

15.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

17.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

18.

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

James, William

19.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

21.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

23.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

24.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

25.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

28.

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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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

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

32.

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

Piatt, Don

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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.

34.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

35.

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

36.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

37.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

39.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

40.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

43.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

44.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Ovid

48.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.