Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Santaguida, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Conrad, Joseph

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Ward, William A.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Horace

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Newman, Peter C.

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Gable, Clark

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell