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

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Camus, Albert

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

30.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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 mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

James, William

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.