Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Life

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Kant, Immanuel

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Rogers, Carl

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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 is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Camus, Albert

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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 a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo