Motivational Quotes

Life

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Life

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Field, Joanna

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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

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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 continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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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.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Powell, Robert