Motivational Quotes

Life

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Best Quotes about Life

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Markiewicz, William

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

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

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

Gellert

11.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

12.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

13.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

14.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

15.

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

Hanks, Tom

16.

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

17.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

18.

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

Michelangelo

19.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Russell, Bertrand

21.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

22.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

23.

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

24.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

25.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

26.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

28.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

29.

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

30.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

31.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

34.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

35.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

36.

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

37.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

38.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

41.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

42.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

45.

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 cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Powell, Robert

48.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

49.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo