Motivational Quotes

Life

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Platen

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

11.

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

Harington, Donald

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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 perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Camus, Albert

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

36.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

37.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

41.

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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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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