Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Life

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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 our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Epicurus

33.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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 is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Norris, Kathleen

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren