Motivational Quotes

Life

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

- Khayyam, Omar

Best Quotes about Life

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Menander of Athens

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

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

24.

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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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To a wise man every day is a new life.