Motivational Quotes

Life

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

11.

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

Simon, Neil

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Seneca

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Santaguida, Paul

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Kornfield, Jack

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick