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

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Pasternak, Boris

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Lennon, John

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Seneca

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey