Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Samuel Butler

Best Quotes about Life

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Coallier, Steven

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Piatt, Don

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Linkletter, Art

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Horace

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul