Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

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

James, William

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Daniel Akst

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

42.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Cook, Robert A.

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.