Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

- Marcos, Imelda

Best Quotes about Life

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Landers, Ann

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Robert Heinlein

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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 foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.