Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

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

Markham, Edwin

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Lennon, John

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

19.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

20.

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

Rogers, Carl

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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's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

32.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Temple, Sir William

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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