Motivational Quotes

Life

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rogers, Will

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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 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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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

John Lennon

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

36.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Presser, Ross

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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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