Motivational Quotes

Life

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Kant, Immanuel

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

McMillan, Terry

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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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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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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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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Markham, Edwin

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

Kempis, Thomas