Motivational Quotes

Life

Making a life comes before making a living.

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Best Quotes about Life

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

William Shakespeare

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Seneca

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

McMillan, Terry

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.