Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Angelou, Maya

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Aristotle

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Santayana, George

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Einstein, Albert

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan