Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- John Lennon

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Baluch, Joy

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Presser, Ross

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Landers, Ann

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

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