Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Carson, Johnny

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Forster, Edward M.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Antrim, Minna

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

William Shakespeare

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bacon, Francis

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

34.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Austen, Jane

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

50.

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