Motivational Quotes

Life

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

- Cousteau, Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

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

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

May, Rollo

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Piatt, Don

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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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 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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

Mountain, Marian

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

31.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Daniel Akst

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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 fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Camus, Albert

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu