Motivational Quotes

Life

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Blackie, Professor

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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