Motivational Quotes

Life

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

William Goldman

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

10.

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

Giles, Henry

11.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

12.

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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

15.

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 has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Ward, William A.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

35.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Platen

45.

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

Burns, George

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Antrim, Minna

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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.