Motivational Quotes

Life

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

- Dawson, Roger

Best Quotes about Life

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare