Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Boese, Paul

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

John Lennon

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Mark Hodder

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Piatt, Don

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Temple, Sir William

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

37.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Menander of Athens

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Lennon, John

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom