Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Life

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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)

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Larkin, Philip

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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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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

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hewitt, George T.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Antrim, Minna

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Herzen, Alexander

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Byron, Lord

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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 is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder