Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

- Thibodeau, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Debevoise, P. L.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Markiewicz, William

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Wise, Alfonso The

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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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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 misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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 is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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