Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Lennon, John

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert