Motivational Quotes

Life

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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Best Quotes about Life

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Pasternak, Boris

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

11.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Mark Hodder

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Hume, David

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

Calhoun, John C.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise