Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Shakespeare, William

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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 has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Isaac Asimov

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.