Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

10.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

17.

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

18.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

19.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Douglas, Michael

23.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

26.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Woody Allen

28.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

29.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

30.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Ciardi, John

43.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Boulanger, Nadia

47.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Hume, David

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey