Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

- Hayakawa, S. I.

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herzen, Alexander

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

William Shakespeare

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Ovid

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.