Motivational Quotes

Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Best Quotes about Life

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

McMillan, Terry

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Fields, W. C.

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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

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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

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Moses, Grandma

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Young, J. Z.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote