Motivational Quotes

Life

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Life

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Coallier, Steven

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

James, William

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Simon, Neil

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Camus, Albert