Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Hubbard, Elbert

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

12.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

20.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

31.

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

32.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

33.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

40.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Seneca

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor