Motivational Quotes

Life

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

- Nouwen, Henri

Best Quotes about Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Herzen, Alexander

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Tomlin, Lily

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Cook, Robert A.

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

Truman Capote