Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Life

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

Keller, Helen

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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 has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fields, W. C.

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Camus, Albert

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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 tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French