Motivational Quotes

Life

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

- Gannett, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Pliny The Elder

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard