Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

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

Coriolanus III

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Barrymore, John

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Seneca

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Mansfield, Katherine