Motivational Quotes

Life

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

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

Linkletter, Art

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

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

John Lennon

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Fran Lebowitz

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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

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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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 does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Baluch, Joy

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

McMillan, Terry

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

44.

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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Bible

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda