Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

- Dimnet, Ernest

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

John Lennon

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Gellert

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

21.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

26.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Berenson, Bernard

38.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

45.

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

Markham, Edwin

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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 is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry