Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Leacock, Stephen B.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Live poor so you can die rich.

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Isaac Asimov

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Austen, Jane

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.