Motivational Quotes

Life

Life loves the liver of it.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Life

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Seneca

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

Herzen, Alexander

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Leno, Jay

10.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

12.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Pope John XXIII

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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 is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Stoppard, Tom

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia