Motivational Quotes

Life

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Life

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Hanks, Tom

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

21.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

38.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Markham, Edwin

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William