Motivational Quotes

Life

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Daniel Akst

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Powell, Robert

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Piatt, Don

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ovid

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Wickett, Michael

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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 action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Coriolanus III

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon