Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Platen

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

11.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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 flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De