Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Pliny The Elder

11.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

13.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Camus, Albert

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Socrates

37.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

42.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

44.

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

William Shakespeare

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Coallier, Steven