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

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

Barrymore, John

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

11.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

12.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wright, Steven

16.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

19.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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.

32.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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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 person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

37.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Woody Allen

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert