Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is just one damned thing after another.

- Elbert Hubbard

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cousteau, Jacques

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Waitley, Denis

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Lennon, John

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.