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

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

Proverb, German

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

Butler, Samuel

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

12.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

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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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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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

28.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare