Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gable, Clark

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Delacroix, Eugene

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Buscaglia, Leo

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Field, Joanna

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Blake, William

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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)

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Pliny The Elder

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

Broun, Heywood

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Newman, Peter C.

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

Seneca

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rogers, Carl

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Mountain, Marian

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.