Motivational Quotes

Life

No one knows when they are well off.

- Punch

Best Quotes about Life

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

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Santaguida, Paul

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

William Goldman

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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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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 state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean