Motivational Quotes

Life

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Life

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Platen

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Osler, Sir William

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

25.

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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Gellert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius