Motivational Quotes

Life

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Life

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

12.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

47.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas