Motivational Quotes

Life

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

- Debevoise, P. L.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Daniel Akst

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Norman Thomas

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Pliny The Elder

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Forster, Edward M.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Coriolanus III

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma