Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

Live poor so you can die rich.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

10.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

11.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

12.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

13.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

14.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

15.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

16.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

17.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

18.

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

Duncan, Isadora

19.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

20.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

24.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

25.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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

28.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

29.

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

Giles, Henry

30.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

32.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

33.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

34.

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

35.

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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

40.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

41.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

49.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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