Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Life

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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

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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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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Mead, Margaret

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

William Goldman

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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner