Motivational Quotes

Life

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Life

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

William Goldman

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Woody Allen

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

Live poor so you can die rich.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Proverb, German

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Pasternak, Boris

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Truman Capote

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Caesar, Sid

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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.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Young, J. Z.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon