Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Santayana, George

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Presser, Ross

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Menander of Athens

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Newman, Peter C.

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George