Motivational Quotes

Life

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

- Pope John XXIII

Best Quotes about Life

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Ben Stein

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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 loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.