Motivational Quotes

Life

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Life

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Ben Stein

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Newman, Peter C.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

10.

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.

11.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Santayana, George

14.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

15.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

17.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

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

Pasternak, Boris

19.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

20.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

21.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

23.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

24.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

25.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

26.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

27.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

28.

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

29.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

30.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

31.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

32.

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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

37.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

38.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

40.

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

Miller, Henry

41.

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

Dante Alighieri

42.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

43.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

44.

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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

49.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb