Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

- Dimnet, Ernest

Best Quotes about Life

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Giles, Henry

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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 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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.