Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a long lesson in humility.

- James M. Barrie

Best Quotes about Life

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Baluch, Joy

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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 -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.