Motivational Quotes

Life

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Horace

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shields, Carol

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Dante Alighieri

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Horace

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Powell, Robert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.