Motivational Quotes

Life

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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 is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Dickens, Charles

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is just a bowl of pits.