Motivational Quotes

Life

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

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

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.

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

Kempton, Murray

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Hewitt, George T.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Ciardi, John

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

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Linkletter, Art

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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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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is too short to learn German.