Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Movie, Forrest Gump

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald