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 gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Russell, Lady R.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Dryden, John

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Pritchett, V. S.

20.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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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

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

28.

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

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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 but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.