Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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 all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Gellert

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Santayana, George

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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