Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Welsh, John

Best Quotes about Life

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Linkletter, Art

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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

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark