Motivational Quotes

Life

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Life

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

Temple, Sir William

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

William Shakespeare

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

36.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony