Motivational Quotes

Life

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Life

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Isaac Asimov

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Ovid

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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

Seneca

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wright, Steven

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom