Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dawson, Roger

Best Quotes about Life

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

Mark Hodder

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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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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