Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Ben Stein

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Dane, Frank

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Dickens, Charles

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Norris, Kathleen

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jordan, David Starr

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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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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare