Motivational Quotes

Life

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

- Osler, Sir William

Best Quotes about Life

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Lennon, John

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

14.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Making a life comes before making a living.

18.

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

Burns, George

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Austen, Jane

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Miller, Henry

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo