Motivational Quotes

Life

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

- Carson, Rachel

Best Quotes about Life

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

10.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

11.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

12.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

13.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

17.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Coallier, Steven