Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

- Booth, Evangeline Cory

Best Quotes about Life

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Bacon, Francis

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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 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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Gellert

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Horace

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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