Motivational Quotes

Life

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

- Boom, Corrie Ten

Best Quotes about Life

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

10.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

12.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Angelou, Maya

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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 an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

William Shakespeare

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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.

31.

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

Powell, Robert

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

35.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas