Motivational Quotes

Life

My art and profession is to live.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Mead, Margaret

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

McMillan, Terry

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

Larkin, Philip

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Camus, Albert

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

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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.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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.

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John