Motivational Quotes

Life

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

- Powell, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Presser, Ross

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

Field, Joanna

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

19.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

John Lennon

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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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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

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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 is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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