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

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

John Lennon

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Horton, Doug

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.