Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Oprah Winfrey

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

William Shakespeare

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Ovid

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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]

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