Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Life

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bachelard, Gaston

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Cook, Robert A.

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

Coallier, Steven

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Mark Hodder

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

Hanks, Tom

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Connolly, Cyril