Motivational Quotes

Life

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kornfield, Jack

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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 not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, 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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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul