Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Life

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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 at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y