Motivational Quotes

Life

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Linkletter, Art

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

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Lin-Chi

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Byron, Lord

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

28.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

29.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

35.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

40.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

41.

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

42.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Piatt, Don