Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Life

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Pliny The Elder

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Keller, Helen

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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 begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr