Motivational Quotes

Life

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

- Pirandello, Luigi

Best Quotes about Life

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Santayana, George

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.