Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Foreman, George

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

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Powell, Robert

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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

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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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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Woody Allen

22.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Facult, F. Paul

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

33.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

39.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb