Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

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

Fields, W. C.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dante Alighieri

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

10.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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

12.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

13.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

14.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

17.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

18.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Broun, Heywood

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

23.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

24.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

29.

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

30.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

31.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

38.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Hewitt, George T.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

49.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas