Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Augustine, St.

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

15.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

33.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Ciardi, John

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Keller, Helen

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder