Motivational Quotes

Life

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

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

Steve Jobs

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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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

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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.

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

Isaac Asimov

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Temple, Sir William

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Lennon, John

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Powell, Robert

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Burns, George

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Buscaglia, Leo