Motivational Quotes

Life

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Life

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Santaguida, Paul

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

Boulanger, Nadia

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Daniel Akst

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

Hayes, Helen

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

10.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

11.

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

12.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

13.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

19.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

20.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Aristotle

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

33.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

Clark, Frank A.

35.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

45.

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

Powell, Robert

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

48.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

49.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

50.

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