Motivational Quotes

Life

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

- Hayes, Helen

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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.

10.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

12.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

19.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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

46.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Baluch, Joy