Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Life

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Allen, Fred A.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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 what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Fran Lebowitz

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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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

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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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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

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.