Motivational Quotes

Life

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack