Motivational Quotes

Life

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

- Platen

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

10.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

11.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

12.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

15.

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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

20.

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

21.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

22.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Herzen, Alexander

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

Socrates

25.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

27.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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

31.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

32.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

33.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

34.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

35.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

36.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Camus, Albert

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

49.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.