Motivational Quotes

Life

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Live poor so you can die rich.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Powell, Robert

14.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

18.

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

Barrymore, John

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

21.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Moses, Grandma

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

40.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

42.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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 hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

50.

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