Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Best Quotes about Life

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Isaac Asimov

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

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Presser, Ross

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Gellert

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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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 is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.