Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Giles, Henry

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

James, William

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Miller, Henry

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian