Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

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

Fran Lebowitz

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Pliny The Elder

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.