Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Life

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

Ben Stein

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

Russell, Bertrand

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Socrates

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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)

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Heath, David M.

30.

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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert