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

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

Presser, Ross

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Woody Allen

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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)

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

33.

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

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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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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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 marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Powell, Robert