Motivational Quotes

Life

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Life

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Camus, Albert

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

11.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

12.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

17.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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.

20.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Coallier, Steven

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

32.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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 a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

36.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

40.

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

41.

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

Presser, Ross

42.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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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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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Socrates

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul