Motivational Quotes

Life

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

- Markiewicz, William

Best Quotes about Life

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

Mark Hodder

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.