Motivational Quotes

Life

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Life

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

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Santaguida, Paul

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Horace

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Pope John XXIII

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

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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.