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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

William Shakespeare

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Steve Jobs

Making a life comes before making a living.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Barrymore, John

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Mandino, Og

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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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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Lennon, John

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Presser, Ross

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny