Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

- Santaguida, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Schuller, Robert H.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

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

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

Seneca

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Dawson, Roger

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Santayana, George

27.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

John Lennon

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

33.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Larkin, Philip

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hayes, Helen

39.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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 can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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