Motivational Quotes

Life

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Life

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Cook, Robert A.

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

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Blake, William

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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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.

Daniel Akst

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Camus, Albert

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest