Motivational Quotes

Life

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Linkletter, Art

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

James, William

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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

11.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

12.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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

17.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

18.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

19.

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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

32.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

40.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

42.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Russell, Lady R.

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