Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

- Schmaltz, David A.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Temple, Sir William

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Socrates

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Horace

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Calhoun, John C.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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 are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Ovid

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

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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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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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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 does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry