Motivational Quotes

Life

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Robbins, Anthony

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Hayes, Helen

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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 an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lennon, John

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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 continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Byron, Lord

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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