Motivational Quotes

Life

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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

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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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

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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! 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

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Horton, Doug

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Antrim, Minna

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton