Motivational Quotes

Life

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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

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

Coriolanus III

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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 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

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven