Motivational Quotes

Life

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Life

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

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.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo