Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Horace

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Live poor so you can die rich.

18.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

19.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Gellert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

28.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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 finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

James, William