Motivational Quotes

Life

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Broun, Heywood

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

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

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Ovid

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques