Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Kempton, Murray

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Samuel Butler

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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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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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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Goldman

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Welsh, John

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.