Motivational Quotes

Life

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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 less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Gurney, Robert

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Shields, Carol

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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