Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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

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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 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

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Indian

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David