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

Miller, Henry

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les