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

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

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Santayana, George

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens