Motivational Quotes

Life

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

10.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

11.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

13.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

19.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

20.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

21.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

24.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

25.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

26.

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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

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

30.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

31.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Daniel Akst

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

46.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

47.

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 has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley