Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Jordan, David Starr

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

10.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

11.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

13.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

14.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

27.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

28.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

James, William

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

33.

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

40.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

Bachelard, Gaston