Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hanks, Tom

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Dryden, John

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.