Motivational Quotes

Life

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Life

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Forster, Edward M.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Hanks, Tom

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Hewitt, George T.

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Augustine, St.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Conrad, Joseph

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Foreman, George

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

John Lennon

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