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

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Herold, Don

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Simon, Neil

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Ward, William A.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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 the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Blake, William

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth