Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Life

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Hume, David

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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 -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Herzen, Alexander

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder