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

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Barrymore, John

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Linkletter, Art

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, 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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall