Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Jordan, David Starr

Best Quotes about Life

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Presser, Ross

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Billings, Josh

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Dane, Frank

10.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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 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 what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

22.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

23.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

24.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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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

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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 -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

49.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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