Motivational Quotes

Life

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

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

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ciardi, John

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

11.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

12.

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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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

19.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

20.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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

22.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

23.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

24.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

25.

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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

32.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

John Lennon

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Havel, Vaclav

37.

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

38.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

39.

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

Santayana, George

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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Blake, William

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Menander of Athens

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George