Motivational Quotes

Life

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Life

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Brendan Gill

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

Ovid

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Scottish

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Herzen, Alexander

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

48.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mccarthy, Mary