Motivational Quotes

Life

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

- Curie, Madame Marie

Best Quotes about Life

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

Duncan, Isadora

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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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 at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

18.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

27.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

28.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dante Alighieri

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Pasternak, Boris

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia