Motivational Quotes

Life

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Life

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

Santaguida, Paul

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

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

Samuel Butler

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

May, Rollo

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

18.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Conrad, Joseph

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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 dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Austen, Jane

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Newman, Peter C.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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