Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Life

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Rivarol, Antoine

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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.

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

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

10.

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

Markham, Edwin

11.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

12.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

13.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

17.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

23.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

27.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

28.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Camus, Albert

30.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

31.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

37.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

39.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

40.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

43.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

44.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.