Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

- Blackie, Professor

Best Quotes about Life

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Newman, Peter C.

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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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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Santaguida, Paul

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Hume, David

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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