Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Life

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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