Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

- Blackie, Professor

Best Quotes about Life

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Eliot, T. S.

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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.

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Augustine, St.

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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin