Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Salisbury, Harrison

Best Quotes about Life

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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

11.

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

Foreman, George

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Camus, Albert

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

31.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Herold, Don

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver