Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

- Booth, Evangeline Cory

Best Quotes about Life

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

Brendan Gill

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

Facult, F. Paul

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

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

Lennon, John

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

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

Horace

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

John Lennon

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman Capote

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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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.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Santayana, George

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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 moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Santayana, George

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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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Maclaren, Alexander