Motivational Quotes

Life

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Russell, Lady R.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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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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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 dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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

32.

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

Harington, Donald

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Byron, Lord

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.