Motivational Quotes

Life

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Camus, Albert

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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Life flows on within you and without you.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.