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 is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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

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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

31.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John