Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Camus, Albert

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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 world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Canetti, Elias

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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 like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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