Motivational Quotes

Life

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Life

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Keller, Helen

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Gellert

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Southey, Robert

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

Gauguin, Paul

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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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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

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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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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul