Motivational Quotes

Life

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Life

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

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Mountain, Marian

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Calhoun, John C.

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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dane, Frank

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert