Motivational Quotes

Life

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Truman Capote

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Facult, F. Paul

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Butler, Samuel

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Dante Alighieri

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.