Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

- Christopher Morley

Best Quotes about Life

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

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Robert Heinlein

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Menander of Athens

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Dickens, Charles

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.