Motivational Quotes

Life

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

- Field, Joanna

Best Quotes about Life

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

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.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Miller, Henry

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Markham, Edwin

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Hewitt, George T.

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Harington, Donald

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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 the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Menander of Athens

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil