Motivational Quotes

Life

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Life

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Allen, Fred A.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Markham, Edwin

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Allen, Fred A.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

William Goldman

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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