Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

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

Markham, Edwin

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ovid

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Santaguida, Paul

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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

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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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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Pope John XXIII

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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 rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.