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

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

William Goldman

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

William Shakespeare

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Bible

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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

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Lennon, John

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les