Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Butler, Philip

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

Ben Stein

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

William Goldman

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

Billings, Josh

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert