Motivational Quotes

Life

No one knows when they are well off.

- Punch

Best Quotes about Life

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Erhard, Werner

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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 cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.