Motivational Quotes

Life

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Powell, Robert

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

Sheen, Fulton John

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

11.

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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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

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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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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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 major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

43.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

44.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov