Motivational Quotes

Life

No one knows when they are well off.

- Punch

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Samuel Butler

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Russell, Lady R.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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 not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

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

May, Rollo

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.