Motivational Quotes

Life

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

- Mccarthy, Mary

Best Quotes about Life

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Dawson, Roger

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

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

Delacroix, Eugene

10.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

11.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

12.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

13.

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 things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

15.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

16.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

17.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

18.

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

Giles, Henry

19.

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

Harington, Donald

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

23.

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

24.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

26.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

27.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

28.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

30.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

31.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

34.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

35.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

39.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

40.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

41.

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

Kempis, Thomas

42.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

45.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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

47.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

50.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler