Motivational Quotes

Life

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Harington, Donald

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

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Brendan Gill

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

11.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Shields, Carol

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

21.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

27.

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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Canetti, Elias