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

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

Coallier, Steven

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Tomlin, Lily

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wickett, Michael

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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

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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 surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Seneca

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Fran Lebowitz

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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.