Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Life

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Scottish

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

William Goldman

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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