Motivational Quotes

Life

Real life seems to have no plots.

- Burnett, Ivy Compton

Best Quotes about Life

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Norris, Kathleen

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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 -- 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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Dante Alighieri

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.