Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Movie, Forrest Gump

Best Quotes about Life

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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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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