Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

- Tremain, Rose

Best Quotes about Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Schmaltz, David A.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

Live poor so you can die rich.

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 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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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Santayana, George

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Russell, Lady R.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Menander of Athens

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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 like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Herzen, Alexander

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri