Motivational Quotes

Life

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Life

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

Byron, Lord

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

Dante Alighieri

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Socrates

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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

32.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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 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 measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Jordan, David Starr

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd