Motivational Quotes

Life

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Life

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

Cabell, James Branch

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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 is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Temple, Sir William

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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