Motivational Quotes

Life

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

- Drummond, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Hume, David

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus