Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

- Benet, Stephen Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

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

Gauguin, Paul

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

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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.

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Socrates

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

William Goldman

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Dawson, Roger

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr