Motivational Quotes

Life

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

- Boom, Corrie Ten

Best Quotes about Life

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Leno, Jay

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Carson, Rachel

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Oprah Winfrey

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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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