Motivational Quotes

Life

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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

Markham, Edwin

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Camus, Albert

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

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

Barrymore, John

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

William Goldman

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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 a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Temple, Sir William

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst