Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Life

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Horace

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

McMillan, Terry

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Mountain, Marian

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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 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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Aristotle

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Live poor so you can die rich.