Motivational Quotes

Life

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

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

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mark Hodder

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Welsh, John

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

40.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De