Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Kant, Immanuel

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Mark Hodder

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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 secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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

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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

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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 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

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid