Motivational Quotes

Life

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

- Markham, Edwin

Best Quotes about Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gellert

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

10.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

11.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Camus, Albert

15.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

16.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

20.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

22.

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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

24.

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

25.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

28.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

29.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

30.

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

Leno, Jay

31.

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

Fields, W. C.

32.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

33.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

34.

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.

35.

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

Aristotle

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

40.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

45.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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.