Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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

Sir Winston Churchill

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Herzen, Alexander

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Horace

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

James, William

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Gellert

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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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 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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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Hewitt, George T.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Conrad, Joseph

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William