Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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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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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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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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 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

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII