Motivational Quotes

Life

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Blake, William

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Miller, Henry

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David