Motivational Quotes

Life

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

- Polgar, Alfred

Best Quotes about Life

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

Powell, Robert

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Blackie, Professor

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

Ovid

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y