Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

William Shakespeare

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

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

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Hanks, Tom

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Newman, Peter C.

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.