Motivational Quotes

Life

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Life

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

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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 like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Facult, F. Paul

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Ovid

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.