Motivational Quotes

Life

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

To a wise man every day is a new life.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

10.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

11.

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

Antrim, Minna

12.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

13.

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

14.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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 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 was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

18.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

21.

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

Proverb, Indian

22.

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

Kempton, Murray

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

25.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

26.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

27.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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

30.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

31.

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 is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

33.

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Byron, Lord

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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.

45.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

46.

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

Calhoun, John C.

47.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca