Motivational Quotes

Life

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Dyer, Wayne

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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 a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

James, William