Motivational Quotes

Life

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

- Lin-Chi

Best Quotes about Life

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

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Antrim, Minna

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

John Lennon

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Horton, Doug

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

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Horace

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bacon, Francis

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Samuel Butler

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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