Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dante Alighieri

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Santaguida, Paul

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

18.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

19.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Hume, David

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

30.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

31.

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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

39.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Pliny The Elder

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret