Motivational Quotes

Life

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

- Osler, Sir William

Best Quotes about Life

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Making a life comes before making a living.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Moses, Grandma

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Markham, Edwin

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.