Motivational Quotes

Life

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

- Leno, Jay

Best Quotes about Life

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Truman Capote

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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 supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Caesar, Sid

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

John Lennon

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

Steve Jobs

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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 is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.