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

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Blake, William

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Cook, Robert A.

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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 zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Keller, Helen

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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 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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Santayana, George

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

Lehrer, Tom