Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Life

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

10.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

12.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

17.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

19.

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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Herold, Don

23.

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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

25.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

29.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

30.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Camus, Albert

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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 is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

35.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

36.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Gellert

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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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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

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver