Motivational Quotes

Life

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

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

Baluch, Joy

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Welsh, John

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Bacon, Francis

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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 is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Socrates

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Michelangelo

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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