Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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 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

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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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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wilde, Oscar

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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