Motivational Quotes

Life

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Santaguida, Paul

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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 foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Gellert

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Presser, Ross

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian