Motivational Quotes

Life

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mead, Margaret

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Herold, Don

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Seneca

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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 force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel