Motivational Quotes

Life

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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Best Quotes about Life

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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 is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor