Motivational Quotes

Life

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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 at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Larkin, Philip

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Erhard, Werner

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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 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 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

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Duncan, Isadora

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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

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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia