Motivational Quotes

Life

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Best Quotes about Life

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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 not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Santayana, George

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Heath, David M.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Mountain, Marian

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich