Motivational Quotes

Life

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Billings, Josh

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

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.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Boese, Paul

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Barrymore, John

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way