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

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Heath, David M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Making a life comes before making a living.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Markham, Edwin

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Havel, Vaclav

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von