Motivational Quotes

Life

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

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

Nouwen, Henri

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

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

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

May, Rollo

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Robert Heinlein

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Welsh, John

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.