Motivational Quotes

Life

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

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

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

10.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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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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

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Dawson, Roger

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Michelangelo

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

38.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.