Motivational Quotes

Life

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Foreman, George

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Welsh, John

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Newman, Peter C.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare