Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Russell, Lady R.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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 begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Ovid

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

Socrates

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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

Camus, Albert

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Heath, David M.

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar