Motivational Quotes

Life

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

- Pope John XXIII

Best Quotes about Life

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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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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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Newman, Peter C.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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