Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Einstein, Albert

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Ben Stein

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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 filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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.

Steinbeck, John

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Horton, Doug

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Austen, Jane

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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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

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl