Motivational Quotes

Life

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Life

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

Santayana, George

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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 has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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 an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Gellert

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hume, David

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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 like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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.