Motivational Quotes

Life

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Life

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

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Foreman, George

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Pliny The Elder

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Camus, Albert

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Erhard, Werner

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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 essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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 hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mountain, Marian

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Simon, Neil

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief