Motivational Quotes

Life

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Best Quotes about Life

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Markiewicz, William

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Proverb, Scottish

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

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

Simon, Neil

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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 is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

May, Rollo

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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

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Oprah Winfrey

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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 at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Gellert

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert