Motivational Quotes

Life

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

- Gables, Anne Of Green

Best Quotes about Life

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Russell, Bertrand

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Isaac Asimov

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, German

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

41.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pasternak, Boris

48.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Calhoun, John C.

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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