Motivational Quotes

Life

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Life

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

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Lehrer, Tom

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

18.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

26.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

34.

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

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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

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

Dante Alighieri

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.