Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Life

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Santayana, George

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell