Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Seneca

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

William Goldman

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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 is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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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

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Platen

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria