Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Truman Capote

Best Quotes about Life

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

10.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

11.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

13.

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

Heath, David M.

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

15.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

16.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

18.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

21.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

23.

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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Harington, Donald

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

28.

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

Orben, Robert

29.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

35.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

42.

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

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman