Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Cousteau, Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Newman, Peter C.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

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

Mountain, Marian

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

11.

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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

16.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

18.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

19.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Feidelson, Charles

28.

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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

30.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

31.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

49.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael