Motivational Quotes

Life

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mccarthy, Mary

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

William Shakespeare

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Proverb, Persian

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

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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 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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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