Motivational Quotes

Life

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Horace

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Facult, F. Paul

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

Angelou, Maya

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Bacon, Francis

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Michelangelo

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur