Motivational Quotes

Life

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Life

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

John Lennon

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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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 old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Duncan, Isadora