Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

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.

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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

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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 purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Herzen, Alexander

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

James, William

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Harington, Donald

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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.

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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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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav