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

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Oprah Winfrey

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Truman Capote

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

10.

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

Ben Stein

11.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

12.

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

Kornfield, Jack

13.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

15.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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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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

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

22.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

24.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

25.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

26.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

27.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

34.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

35.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

37.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

38.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

43.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

44.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

45.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Allen, Fred A.

49.

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

Gable, Clark

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar