Motivational Quotes

Life

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about Life

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Santayana, George

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

Lennon, John

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

22.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Proverb, Indian

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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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

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Welsh, John

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

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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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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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