Motivational Quotes

Life

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Life

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Lennon, John

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

22.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

42.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

43.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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