Motivational Quotes

Life

Live, let live, and help live

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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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

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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

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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

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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

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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

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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

22.

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

Gable, Clark

23.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

24.

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

Blake, William

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

27.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Santayana, George

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

33.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

34.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

36.

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

Alacia Bessette

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Oprah Winfrey

39.

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

Pope John XXIII

40.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

41.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

43.

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar