Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

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

Hayes, Helen

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Norman Thomas

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Landers, Ann

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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.

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

Calhoun, John C.