Motivational Quotes

Life

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Landers, Ann

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

John Lennon

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian