Motivational Quotes

Life

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Erhard, Werner

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

Foreman, George

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

10.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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

12.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

16.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

18.

Live poor so you can die rich.

19.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

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

John Lennon

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

23.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Blackie, Professor

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

30.

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

Robbins, Anthony

31.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

32.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

33.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

35.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

40.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

43.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

45.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

49.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth