Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ben Stein

Best Quotes about Life

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Daniel Akst

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

20.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

21.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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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

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Mark Hodder

30.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul