Motivational Quotes

Life

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Life

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Lennon, John

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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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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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Orben, Robert

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Dawson, Roger

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald