Motivational Quotes

Life

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

- Norman Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Antrim, Minna

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carson, Johnny

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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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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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butler, Samuel

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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 without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Butler, Philip

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Forster, Edward M.