Motivational Quotes

Life

No one knows when they are well off.

- Punch

Best Quotes about Life

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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

John Lennon

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wickett, Michael

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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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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 just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Eliot, T. S.

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Russell, Lady R.

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony