Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

- Marcos, Imelda

Best Quotes about Life

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Making a life comes before making a living.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Samuel Butler

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Proverb, Indian

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Hume, David

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John