Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Life

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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

William Goldman

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Hanks, Tom

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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

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Dante Alighieri

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Pliny The Elder

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.