Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

- Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

Best Quotes about Life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

William Goldman

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Bible

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Isaac Asimov

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Boese, Paul

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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