Motivational Quotes

Life

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Life

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Indian

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

10.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

11.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

13.

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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

15.

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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

19.

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

20.

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

Erhard, Werner

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Platen

24.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

26.

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

27.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

28.

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

29.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

30.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

31.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

37.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Barrymore, John

39.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

40.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

41.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

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 is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

45.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

46.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

48.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

49.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Kempis, Thomas