Motivational Quotes

Life

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

- Carson, Rachel

Best Quotes about Life

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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.

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

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Cioran, E. M.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wright, Steven

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De