Motivational Quotes

Life

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Life

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

Keller, Helen

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

Lehrer, Tom

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Byron, Lord

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Carson, Rachel

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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

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Facult, F. Paul

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief