Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Robert Heinlein

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

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Feidelson, Charles

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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

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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

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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 Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Schmaltz, David A.