Motivational Quotes

Life

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Life

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

10.

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

Horace

11.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

12.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

13.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

14.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

18.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Kant, Immanuel

20.

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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

26.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

27.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Robbins, Anthony

29.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

30.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Coriolanus III

35.

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

Herold, Don

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

37.

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

Erhard, Werner

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.