Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Cabell, James Branch

Best Quotes about Life

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Epicurus

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Facult, F. Paul

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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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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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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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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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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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Socrates

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan