Motivational Quotes

Life

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Kant, Immanuel

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Lebowitz, Fran

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Seneca

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

Samuel Butler

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

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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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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Live, let live, and help live