Motivational Quotes

Life

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Foreman, George

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

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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

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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 just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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

25.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

James, William

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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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.

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Walpole, Horace

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.