Motivational Quotes

Life

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Life

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

11.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

12.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

13.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

18.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

19.

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

20.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

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

Temple, Sir William

22.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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

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

Russell, Lady R.

27.

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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

30.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

41.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

43.

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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

46.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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.