Motivational Quotes

Life

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

- Giles, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

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

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Broun, Heywood

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Herzen, Alexander

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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 hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph