Motivational Quotes

Life

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Life

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Robert Heinlein

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Wright, Steven

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Facult, F. Paul

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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 joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister