Motivational Quotes

Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Life

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Steve Jobs

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

Proverb, Scottish

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Proverb, German

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Einstein, Albert