Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Life

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

10.

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

Cousteau, Jacques

11.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

12.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

James, William

14.

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

May, Rollo

15.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

18.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

19.

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

Lin-Chi

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

21.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

27.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

31.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

32.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

34.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Jordan, David Starr

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

38.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Ben Stein

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

42.

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

Dane, Frank

43.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

44.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

45.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

46.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

47.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.