Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Camus, Albert

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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

11.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

12.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

13.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

14.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

15.

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

16.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

17.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

18.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

19.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

20.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

22.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

27.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

28.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

29.

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

Santaguida, Paul

30.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

31.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

33.

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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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

35.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

36.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

39.

Making a life comes before making a living.

40.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Keller, Helen

42.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

44.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Austen, Jane

47.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

48.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

49.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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