Motivational Quotes

Life

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

- Markiewicz, William

Best Quotes about Life

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Kennedy, John F.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

John Lennon

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Broun, Heywood

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John 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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace