Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Life

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Wilde, Oscar

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hayes, Helen

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

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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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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Douglas, Michael

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Calhoun, John C.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.