Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

- Radner, Gilda

Best Quotes about Life

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Aristotle

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Lennon, John

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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