Motivational Quotes

Life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Life

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Santaguida, Paul

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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

12.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

14.

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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

33.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Moses, Grandma

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Allen, Fred A.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward