Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Life

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Blackie, Professor

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Eliot, T. S.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

12.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

13.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

14.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

Wolfe, Thomas

17.

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

McMillan, Terry

18.

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

Menander of Athens

19.

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

20.

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

Burns, George

21.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

22.

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

Dane, Frank

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

30.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

31.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

35.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

41.

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

42.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

43.

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

Welsh, John

44.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare