Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gable, Clark

Best Quotes about Life

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Making a life comes before making a living.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Field, Joanna

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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

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Santaguida, Paul

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dryden, John

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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 enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Socrates

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

James, William

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

Kempton, Murray

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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

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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 is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris