Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

- Stone, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

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

Dickens, Charles

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

10.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

13.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

14.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Alacia Bessette

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

22.

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

Hayes, Helen

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

Jordan, David Starr

24.

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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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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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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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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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

30.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

33.

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 was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

38.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

46.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

47.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Making a life comes before making a living.