Motivational Quotes

Life

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

- Kempton, Murray

Best Quotes about Life

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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 lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

May, Rollo

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

Aristotle

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher