Motivational Quotes

Life

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

- Mccarthy, Mary

Best Quotes about Life

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

Baluch, Joy

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Dawson, Roger

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

11.

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

Markiewicz, William

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Live poor so you can die rich.

22.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Foreman, George

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Socrates

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Keller, Helen

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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna