Motivational Quotes

Life

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

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

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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 isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Ovid

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly