Motivational Quotes

Life

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Life

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Field, Joanna

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Socrates

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

John Lennon

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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 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

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.