Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Isaac Asimov

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

14.

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

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

18.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

20.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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

35.

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

Keller, Helen

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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

Kennedy, John F.