Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Russell, Lady R.

Best Quotes about Life

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Wilde, Oscar

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

William Goldman

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Ovid

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.