Motivational Quotes

Life

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Moses, Grandma

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 wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Platen

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

14.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

28.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall