Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Giles, Henry

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

11.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

13.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

17.

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

18.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

19.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Socrates

21.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

29.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

37.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Tomlin, Lily

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene