Motivational Quotes

Life

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

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

Seneca

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

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Baluch, Joy

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

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

Broun, Heywood

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Samuel Butler

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Moses, Grandma

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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, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt