Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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 is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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 something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Allen, Fred A.

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Aristotle

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Allen, Fred A.

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bacon, Francis

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Young, J. Z.

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William