Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

- Blackie, Professor

Best Quotes about Life

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Blake, William

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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

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

26.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

32.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

35.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Menander of Athens

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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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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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Santayana, George

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman