Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

- Thibodeau, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Making a life comes before making a living.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Lennon, John

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Heath, David M.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

11.

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

12.

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

Dante Alighieri

13.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

18.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

19.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

24.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

27.

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

Herzen, Alexander

28.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

29.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

31.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

42.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

43.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

44.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Isaac Asimov

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.