Motivational Quotes

Life

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Life

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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 is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

John Lennon

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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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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

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald