Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Life

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

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

William Goldman

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Erhard, Werner

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Broun, Heywood