Motivational Quotes

Life

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Allen, Fred A.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Dante Alighieri

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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 an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Coallier, Steven

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

John Lennon

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

William Shakespeare

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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 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 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

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh