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

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

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

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

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

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Santayana, George

11.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Dante Alighieri

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Socrates

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord