Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Lennon, John

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

Blake, William

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

29.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

30.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

31.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Michelangelo

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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