Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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 too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.