Motivational Quotes

Life

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Life

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

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Conrad, Joseph

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Michelangelo

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.