Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Dryden, John

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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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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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Socrates

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Aristotle

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

40.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bacon, Francis

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker