Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

- Brown, William Adams

Best Quotes about Life

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Indian

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

William Shakespeare

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ben Stein

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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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

McMillan, Terry

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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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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 It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Jordan, David Starr

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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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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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Presser, Ross

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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