Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Life

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

Allen, Fred A.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Antrim, Minna

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.