Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Life

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

Socrates

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

10.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

11.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

12.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

13.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

14.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

15.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

16.

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

Ciardi, John

17.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

18.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

19.

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

Seneca

20.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

21.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

22.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

23.

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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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

25.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

27.

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

Camus, Albert

28.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

29.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

30.

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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

32.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

34.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

35.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

36.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

38.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

44.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

46.

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

Pope John XXIII

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

49.

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

Cook, Robert A.

50.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote