Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

- Benet, Stephen Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Brendan Gill

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Camus, Albert

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

John Lennon

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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