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

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Piatt, Don

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

10.

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

Horton, Doug

11.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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

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

Foreman, George

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

18.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

20.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

22.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

30.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fran Lebowitz

32.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

34.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

35.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Markham, Edwin

40.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Larkin, Philip

48.

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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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory