Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gurney, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Broun, Heywood

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Epicurus

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Proverb, Indian

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Truman Capote

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

Byron, Lord

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

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

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

43.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright