Motivational Quotes

Life

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

- Fo-Yan

Best Quotes about Life

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Live poor so you can die rich.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

10.

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

Connolly, Cyril

11.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

12.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

13.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

14.

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

29.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

31.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pasternak, Boris

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

41.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

42.

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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

44.

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

Linkletter, Art

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan