Motivational Quotes

Life

Those who live are those who fight.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Life

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

12.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Sir Winston Churchill

25.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Santaguida, Paul

32.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

35.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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 is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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 a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.