Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ben Stein

Best Quotes about Life

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.