Motivational Quotes

Life

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

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

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Pritchett, V. S.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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

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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

39.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Feidelson, Charles

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.