Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Life

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

Foreman, George

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Oprah Winfrey

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Butler, Philip

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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]

Bible

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

46.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.