Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Life

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Bachelard, Gaston

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Austen, Jane

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

William Shakespeare

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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.