Motivational Quotes

Life

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Life

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Truman Capote

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

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Camus, Albert

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De