Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Aristotle

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

46.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 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