Motivational Quotes

Life

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Life

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

William Shakespeare

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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

12.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Platen

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Truman Capote

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Isaac Asimov

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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.

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Gauguin, Paul

48.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.