Motivational Quotes

Life

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

- Zeno

Best Quotes about Life

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Curie, Madame Marie

10.

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

11.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

12.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

13.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

16.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

17.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

25.

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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

32.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

35.

Making a life comes before making a living.

36.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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