Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about 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

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Newman, Peter C.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Conrad, Joseph

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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 but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Butler, Samuel

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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