Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Mark Hodder

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Keller, Helen

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Santayana, George

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil