Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

- Christopher Morley

Best Quotes about Life

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

11.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

18.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques