Motivational Quotes

Life

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

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

Bacon, Francis

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Steve Jobs

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

Simon, Neil

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

Welsh, John

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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 a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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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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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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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Norris, Kathleen

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

22.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Horace

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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 is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Gellert

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Life itself is the proper binge.