Motivational Quotes

Life

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Calhoun, John C.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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