Motivational Quotes

Life

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Santayana, George

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Piatt, Don

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Rogers, Carl

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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

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y