Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

10.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

11.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

12.

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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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 -- 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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

20.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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

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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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

28.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

30.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Ovid

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

40.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

45.

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

McMillan, Terry

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis