Motivational Quotes

Life

My art and profession is to live.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Mark Hodder

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

Wright, Steven

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

20.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

21.

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

Piatt, Don

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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.

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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 is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!