Motivational Quotes

Life

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

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

Antrim, Minna

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Nash, Ogden

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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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 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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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 is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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