Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Life

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Goldman

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

Proverb, Indian

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Epicurus

11.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

12.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Byron, Lord

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

18.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

William Shakespeare

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Hume, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Blackie, Professor

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Wickett, Michael

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian