Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Santaguida, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Landers, Ann

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Live poor so you can die rich.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Wilde, Oscar

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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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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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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Dickens, Charles

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German