Motivational Quotes

Life

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

- Skynard, Lynard

Best Quotes about Life

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Burns, George

10.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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

Hewitt, George T.

12.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

14.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

18.

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

Dawson, Roger

19.

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

20.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

21.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

22.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

23.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

24.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

25.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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

27.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

29.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

30.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

31.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

32.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

35.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

36.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

45.

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

Proverb, Scottish

46.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock