Motivational Quotes

Life

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

- Hewitt, George T.

Best Quotes about Life

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Herzen, Alexander

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Seneca

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Proverb, Indian

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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

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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 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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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Samuel Butler

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius