Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

- Brown, William Adams

Best Quotes about Life

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bacon, Francis

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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 was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Shields, Carol

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

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

Southey, Robert

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Dawson, Roger

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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

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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