Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Life

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Fields, W. C.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Walpole, Horace

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Powell, Robert

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

McMillan, Terry

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean