Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ciardi, John

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

James, William

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria