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

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

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

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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 is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Lennon, John

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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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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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

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.