Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rogers, Carl

Best Quotes about Life

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lin-Chi

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

20.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Coriolanus III

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

31.

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

Santaguida, Paul

32.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

37.

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

Brendan Gill

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Camus, Albert

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Hume, David

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin