Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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.

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

Butler, Samuel

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Horace

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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.

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mountain, Marian

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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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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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Lennon, John