Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

- Tremain, Rose

Best Quotes about Life

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

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Boese, Paul

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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

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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

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Robert Heinlein

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.