Motivational Quotes

Life

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

- Gauguin, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

Orben, Robert

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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

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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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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

McMillan, Terry

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Fields, W. C.

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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 marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody