Motivational Quotes

Life

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

- Jordan, David Starr

Best Quotes about Life

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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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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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Santayana, George

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.