Motivational Quotes

Life

All of life is a foreign country.

- Kerouac, Jack

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

10.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

11.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

13.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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 like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Santaguida, Paul

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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