Motivational Quotes

Life

My art and profession is to live.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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

23.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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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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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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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mead, Margaret

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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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 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 fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Samuel Butler