Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Best Quotes about Life

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Mark Hodder

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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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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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

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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