Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Thoreau, Henry David

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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 cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Linkletter, Art

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Michelangelo

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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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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace