Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Powell, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Erickson, Lou

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

Thoreau, Henry David

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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.