Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

John Lennon

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

10.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

12.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

18.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

19.

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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

24.

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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

32.

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

34.

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

Cousteau, Jacques

35.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

41.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Russell, Lady R.

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

47.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell