Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Best Quotes about Life

1.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

2.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

3.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

4.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

5.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

6.

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

7.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

8.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

9.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

10.

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

11.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

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

13.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

14.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

17.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

18.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

19.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

20.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

21.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

22.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

23.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

25.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

26.

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

Fran Lebowitz

27.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

28.

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

Fields, W. C.

29.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

30.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

32.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

33.

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

Boese, Paul

34.

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

35.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

39.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

40.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

41.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

43.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

44.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

45.

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

Horace

46.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

47.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

48.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

49.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

50.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.