Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Billings, Josh

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

18.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

19.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Blake, William

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Pope John XXIII

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.