Motivational Quotes

Life

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

- Drummond, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Horton, Doug

10.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

11.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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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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

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

43.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Boulanger, Nadia

45.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren