Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Heath, David M.

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard