Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Life

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

Boese, Paul

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

Linkletter, Art

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Berenson, Bernard

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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

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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

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Rogers, Carl

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul