Motivational Quotes

Life

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

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

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Pasternak, Boris

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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 made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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 but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian