Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Russell, Lady R.

10.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

11.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

12.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

13.

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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

16.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

17.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

18.

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

19.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

20.

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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

22.

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

James, William

23.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

24.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

25.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

26.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

27.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

28.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

30.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

31.

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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Ovid

45.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Duncan, Isadora

47.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul