Motivational Quotes

Life

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Life

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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 a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred