Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Life

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Heath, David M.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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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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

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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.