Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Life

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

Horace

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Camus, Albert

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Coriolanus III

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

20.

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

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

29.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor