Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Santaguida, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Camus, Albert

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Fuller, Thomas