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 just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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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 is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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.

19.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Wickett, Michael

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Mark Hodder

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

Nash, Ogden

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Socrates

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Canetti, Elias

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry