Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Buscaglia, Leo

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Delacroix, Eugene

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Foreman, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Keller, Helen

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Coriolanus III

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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 good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret