Motivational Quotes

Life

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Camus, Albert

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Santayana, George

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

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rogers, Carl

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.