Motivational Quotes

Life

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Blackie, Professor

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

11.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

12.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

13.

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

Coallier, Steven

14.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

William Goldman

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Proverb, Indian

27.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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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

33.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

36.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Wright, Steven

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

47.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.