Motivational Quotes

Life

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

- Drummond, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Dimnet, Ernest

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

10.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

11.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

12.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Oprah Winfrey

18.

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

Barrymore, John

19.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

20.

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 little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

25.

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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

29.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

31.

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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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

36.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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 what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

William Goldman

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare