Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Life

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

William Goldman

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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

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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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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Santaguida, Paul

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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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 first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Socrates