Motivational Quotes

Life

Life too near paralyses art.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about 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

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

Calhoun, John C.

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Oprah Winfrey

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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 is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare