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's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Truman Capote

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Fields, W. C.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Kempis, Thomas

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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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

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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

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

Coallier, Steven

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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

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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

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Seneca

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Making a life comes before making a living.

41.

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

Ward, William A.

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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

48.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Kornfield, Jack

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia