Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Truman Capote

Best Quotes about Life

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Cabell, James Branch

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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 not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Antrim, Minna

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Carson, Johnny

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.