Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

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

Orben, Robert

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Woody Allen

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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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 is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.