Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Hanks, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

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

Alacia Bessette

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

45.

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

McMillan, Terry

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord