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

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Burns, George

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

William Goldman

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.

Oprah Winfrey

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Boulanger, Nadia

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Linkletter, Art

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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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

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.