Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Life

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Herzen, Alexander

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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 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 dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Wright, Steven

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

Brendan Gill

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle