Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Walpole, Horace

Best Quotes about Life

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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 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

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

21.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Ciardi, John

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen