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

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Carson, Rachel

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Pliny The Elder

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Cioran, E. M.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Dickens, Charles

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Blake, William

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Pope John XXIII

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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

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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

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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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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 city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone