Motivational Quotes

Life

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Life

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Seneca

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Fuller, Thomas

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Coriolanus III

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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

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Dryden, John

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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 dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.