Motivational Quotes

Life

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

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

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

10.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

11.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

12.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

13.

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

Proverb, German

14.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

15.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

16.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Coriolanus III

20.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

21.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

22.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

25.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

26.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

30.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

32.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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

34.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

35.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

36.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

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

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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

46.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

47.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

48.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

49.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

50.

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.