Motivational Quotes

Life

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dimnet, Ernest

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Coriolanus III

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Horace

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Dane, Frank

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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 a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen