Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Giles, Henry

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Harington, Donald

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

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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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Lin-Chi