Motivational Quotes

Life

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Life

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

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

Austen, Jane

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

Mansfield, Katherine

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

14.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Russell, Lady R.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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 solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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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 something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.