Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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 is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Bacon, Francis

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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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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