Motivational Quotes

Life

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

- Heath, David M.

Best Quotes about Life

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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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

18.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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

28.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

33.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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