Motivational Quotes

Life

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Life

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Keller, Helen

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

Russell, Lady R.

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Douglas, Michael

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Dryden, John

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom