Motivational Quotes

Life

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

- Powell, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Isherwood, Christopher

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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 having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Hewitt, George T.

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray