Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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 divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Woody Allen

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

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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus