Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Herzen, Alexander

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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 a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca