Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Broun, Heywood

Best Quotes about Life

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Duncan, Isadora

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

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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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

James, William

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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