Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a state of mind.

- Warden, Jack

Best Quotes about Life

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

Barrymore, John

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Broun, Heywood

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Hewitt, George T.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

McMillan, Terry

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Moses, Grandma