Motivational Quotes

Life

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Clark, Frank A.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Cabell, James Branch

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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.

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Temple, Sir William

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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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.

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Lennon, John

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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.