Motivational Quotes

Life

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Brecht, Bertolt

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Baluch, Joy

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Russell, Bertrand

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman