Motivational Quotes

Life

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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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

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

John Lennon

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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.

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Barrymore, John