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

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Pepper, Claude D.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

John Lennon

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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 not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Camus, Albert

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Santayana, George

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Dante Alighieri

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.