Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dyer, Wayne

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Fuller, Thomas

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Young, J. Z.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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 only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

William Goldman

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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