Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

10.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

11.

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

12.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

13.

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

Pope John XXIII

14.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

15.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Herold, Don

17.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

19.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

21.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

22.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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

24.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

26.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

31.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

39.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

40.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

41.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

42.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

45.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

46.

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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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

48.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

49.

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

50.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru