Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

- Munger, Thornton T.

Best Quotes about Life

Live poor so you can die rich.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Markham, Edwin

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Horace

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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.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lin-Chi

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

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

Jordan, David Starr

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Simon, Neil

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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