Motivational Quotes

Life

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

- Cousteau, Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

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.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

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.

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

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Ben Stein

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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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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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

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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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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Pope John XXIII

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

48.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

49.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.