Motivational Quotes

Life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

James, William

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Kornfield, Jack

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Orben, Robert

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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 raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Presser, Ross

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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