Motivational Quotes

Life

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Life

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

10.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

11.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

May, Rollo

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

37.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

40.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

Conrad, Joseph

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

43.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya