Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Isaac Asimov

Best Quotes about Life

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Augustine, St.

10.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

11.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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

Lebowitz, Fran

14.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Temple, Sir William

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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 is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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

42.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug