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

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Pritchett, V. S.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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 a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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 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 isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Simon, Neil

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Linkletter, Art

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Dante Alighieri

35.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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 a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.