Motivational Quotes

Life

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

- Gellert

Best Quotes about Life

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Mark Hodder

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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 isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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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

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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