Motivational Quotes

Life

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

- Baluch, Joy

Best Quotes about Life

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Broun, Heywood

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

11.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Linkletter, Art

15.

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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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 marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

19.

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

Herold, Don

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

25.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

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

Hume, David

28.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

29.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

31.

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

32.

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

Landers, Ann

33.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

34.

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

Wickett, Michael

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

40.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

41.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

45.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.