Motivational Quotes

Life

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

- Anderson, Hans Christian

Best Quotes about Life

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

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

Mountain, Marian

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

Bacon, Francis

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Austen, Jane

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Shakespeare, William

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Horace

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.