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

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

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

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Larkin, Philip

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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.