Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- McMillan, Terry

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cook, Robert A.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Byron, Lord

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Seneca

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

McMillan, Terry

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

James, William

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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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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

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock