Motivational Quotes

Life

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

- Foreman, George

Best Quotes about Life

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Dante Alighieri

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John 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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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret