Motivational Quotes

Life

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

- Norman Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Miller, Henry

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Foreman, George

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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

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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

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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 goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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.

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman