Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Markiewicz, William

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

James, William

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales