Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Walpole, Horace

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Camus, Albert

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

McMillan, Terry

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

21.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

26.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Larkin, Philip

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

32.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

43.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges