Motivational Quotes

Life

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

- Ben Stein

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Woody Allen

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Ovid

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

Seneca

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

William Shakespeare

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