Motivational Quotes

Life

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Life

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Mccarthy, Mary

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Horace

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

41.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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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