Motivational Quotes

Life

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Santayana, George

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Blackie, Professor

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Conrad, Joseph

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur