Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Anderson, Hans Christian

Best Quotes about Life

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

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

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

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Pliny The Elder

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Platen

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Santayana, George

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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.

Orben, Robert

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William