Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Fuller, Thomas

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

William Shakespeare

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer