Motivational Quotes

Life

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Schmaltz, David A.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

19.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

22.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

28.

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.

29.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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

32.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.