Motivational Quotes

Life

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

- Daniel Akst

Best Quotes about Life

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

Making a life comes before making a living.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

14.

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 is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

18.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

21.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

25.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

27.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Camus, Albert

32.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

34.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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

Santaguida, Paul

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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

45.

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

Butler, Philip

46.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

47.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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.

49.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

50.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry