Motivational Quotes

Life

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Life

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Rogers, Carl

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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Austen, Jane

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord