Motivational Quotes

Life

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Life

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Horace

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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