Motivational Quotes

Life

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

- Gauguin, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Antrim, Minna

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

10.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

11.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

14.

Live poor so you can die rich.

15.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

16.

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

17.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

18.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

20.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

21.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Temple, Sir William

25.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

26.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

29.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

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

34.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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

37.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.