Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Lin-Chi

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

10.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

11.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

13.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

14.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

15.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

19.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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 have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

24.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

25.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

26.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

27.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

28.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Horace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fields, W. C.

33.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

34.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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 an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

39.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

May, Rollo

41.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

43.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.