Motivational Quotes

Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Life

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

May, Rollo

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

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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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 person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hume, David

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

35.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Horace

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman