Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Life

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Fieldes, Christopher

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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 something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Aristotle

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Powell, Robert

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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

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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