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

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

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

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

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

Dimnet, Ernest

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Kempton, Murray

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

William Shakespeare

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

34.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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