Motivational Quotes

Life

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Life

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Presser, Ross

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Barrymore, John

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Austen, Jane

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

McMillan, Terry

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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My art and profession is to live.