Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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 is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Caesar, Sid

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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 raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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 too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hume, David

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

William Shakespeare

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov