Motivational Quotes

Life

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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 not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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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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

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis