Motivational Quotes

Life

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

- Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Best Quotes about Life

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Foreman, George

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

11.

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

Seneca

12.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

13.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

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

Mead, Margaret

15.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

16.

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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

18.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

19.

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.

20.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

21.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Welsh, John

25.

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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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 must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

34.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

38.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

39.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

40.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

41.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

48.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Walpole, Horace