Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

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

James, William

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

16.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

22.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

25.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

28.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

31.

Live poor so you can die rich.

32.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

35.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Mark Hodder

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

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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 man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Wickett, Michael

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous