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 divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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.

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

Horton, Doug

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 a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Markham, Edwin

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

Duncan, Isadora

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hayes, Helen

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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

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Austen, Jane

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes 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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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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 is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.