Motivational Quotes

Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

- Ackerman, Diane

Best Quotes about Life

Live poor so you can die rich.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

11.

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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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

17.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

21.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Proverb, German

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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

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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

32.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

38.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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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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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Caesar, Sid

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y