Motivational Quotes

Life

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Hayes, Helen

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Russell, Lady R.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Lehrer, Tom

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Kornfield, Jack

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Mountain, Marian

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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

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Truman Capote

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

Walpole, Horace

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.