Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Broun, Heywood

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Wright, Steven

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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

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bacon, Francis

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Russell, Lady R.

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel