Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Herzen, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Giles, Henry

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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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

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Horace

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Byron, Lord

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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