Motivational Quotes

Life

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Kempton, Murray

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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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

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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

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Orben, Robert

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.