Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

- Reed, Lou

Best Quotes about Life

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Wolfe, Thomas

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Linkletter, Art

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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

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

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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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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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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