Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a long lesson in humility.

- James M. Barrie

Best Quotes about Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

13.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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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.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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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

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

29.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

30.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

31.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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.

44.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

46.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.