Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Camus, Albert

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Pliny The Elder

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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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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Wickett, Michael

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Mark Hodder

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Keller, Helen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert