Motivational Quotes

Life

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

- Baez, Joan

Best Quotes about Life

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Bacon, Francis

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Canetti, Elias

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

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

Camus, Albert

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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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

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Nash, Ogden

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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