Motivational Quotes

Life

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Ben Stein

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 in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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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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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Austen, Jane

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

43.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baluch, Joy

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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