Motivational Quotes

Life

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

- Osler, Sir William

Best Quotes about Life

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

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Woody Allen

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

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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

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Coallier, Steven

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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

49.

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

Pope John XXIII

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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