Motivational Quotes

Life

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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

11.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

14.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

15.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

16.

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

Gellert

17.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

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

Dawson, Roger

20.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

23.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

24.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

25.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

26.

Making a life comes before making a living.

27.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

28.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

31.

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

Horace

32.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

33.

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

34.

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

35.

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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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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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

40.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

41.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

42.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

43.

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

44.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

45.

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

46.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

47.

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

Fields, W. C.

48.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

50.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William