Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Einstein, Albert

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Shields, Carol

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

13.

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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

16.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

19.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

20.

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

Santaguida, Paul

21.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

22.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

23.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

33.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

37.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

39.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.