Motivational Quotes

Life

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Henry

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

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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 is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen