Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Robert Heinlein

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Jordan, David Starr

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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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 like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

23.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Menander of Athens

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

46.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Pasternak, Boris

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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