Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.