Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Markham, Edwin

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

11.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Cook, Robert A.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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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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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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 goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

38.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Dryden, John

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca