Motivational Quotes

Life

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

- Herzen, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Cabell, James Branch

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

Fieldes, Christopher

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Young, J. Z.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Broun, Heywood

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Kant, Immanuel

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

William Goldman

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bible

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John