Motivational Quotes

Life

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Shields, Carol

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sheen, Fulton John

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Coriolanus III

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Leno, Jay

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

28.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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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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

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Norris, Kathleen

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus