Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Sizoo, Joseph R.

Best Quotes about Life

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Horace

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cabell, James Branch

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Larkin, Philip

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

23.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

31.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Duncan, Isadora

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

42.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin