Motivational Quotes

Life

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Life

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gurney, Robert

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Landers, Ann

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Leno, Jay

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Facult, F. Paul

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin