Motivational Quotes

Life

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Debevoise, P. L.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

11.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

12.

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

13.

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

Ovid

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

15.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

16.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

17.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

18.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

19.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

20.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

21.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

25.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Hewitt, George T.

29.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

32.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

33.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

34.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

35.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

36.

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

Dryden, John

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

40.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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

43.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

44.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

45.

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

John Lennon

46.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

48.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

49.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

50.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall