Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Newman, Peter C.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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)

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Santaguida, Paul

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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 an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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 was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Heath, David M.

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

James, William

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

Coriolanus III

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Camus, Albert

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

Ward, William A.

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Rogers, Carl

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan