Motivational Quotes

Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

- Seume, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Life

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Broun, Heywood

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Hewitt, George T.

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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 longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Moses, Grandma

30.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

32.

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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Camus, Albert

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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 an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life itself is the proper binge.