Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Life

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Ovid

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

William Shakespeare

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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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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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi