Motivational Quotes

Life

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

- Camus, Albert

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 like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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 a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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

Herzen, Alexander

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace