Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Life

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

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

To a wise man every day is a new life.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jordan, David Starr

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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

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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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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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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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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

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

Alacia Bessette

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman