Motivational Quotes

Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Best Quotes about Life

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Powell, Robert

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Linkletter, Art

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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