Motivational Quotes

Life

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Piatt, Don

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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.

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Lin-Chi

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Duncan, Isadora

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