Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Pope John XXIII

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

William Shakespeare

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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 average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Coallier, Steven

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren