Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Best Quotes about Life

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

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

Mark Hodder

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

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

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

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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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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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Ovid

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Giles, Henry

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Santaguida, Paul

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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