Motivational Quotes

Life

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

- Gellert

Best Quotes about Life

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Gable, Clark

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

Mccarthy, Mary

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

15.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

19.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

20.

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

Erhard, Werner

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

22.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Jordan, David Starr

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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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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

31.

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

Kornfield, Jack

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

Seneca

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

34.

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

Douglas, Michael

35.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

36.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Boese, Paul

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.