Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Life

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Antrim, Minna

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Menander of Athens

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

William Shakespeare

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les