Motivational Quotes

Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

- Seume, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

Baluch, Joy

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Larkin, Philip

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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Blake, William

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Pasternak, Boris

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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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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart