Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

- Sheen, Fulton John

Best Quotes about Life

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Ward, William A.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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 a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Southey, Robert

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Moses, Grandma

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Linkletter, Art

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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