Motivational Quotes

Life

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

- Nouwen, Henri

Best Quotes about Life

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Menander of Athens

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Berenson, Bernard

10.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

11.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

13.

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

Rogers, Will

14.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

15.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

19.

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

Herold, Don

20.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

21.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

22.

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

Broun, Heywood

23.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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

Gauguin, Paul

25.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

26.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

27.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

30.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

31.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

33.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

35.

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

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

37.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

39.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

41.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

42.

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

John Lennon

43.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

45.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

46.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

47.

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

Brendan Gill

48.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.