Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

- Stone, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Platen

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pliny The Elder

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

11.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Truman Capote

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

31.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Mansfield, Katherine

35.

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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Antrim, Minna

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles