Motivational Quotes

Life

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

- Linkletter, Art

Best Quotes about Life

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

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

Epicurus

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

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

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

13.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

29.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Facult, F. Paul

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Lin-Chi

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L