Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Life

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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 not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

James, William

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Fran Lebowitz

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