Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

- Isherwood, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

John Lennon

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

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Hume, David

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Lennon, John

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Truman Capote

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George