Motivational Quotes

Life

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

- Dewey, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Baluch, Joy

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Byron, Lord

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bible

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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 poor so you can die rich.

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

McMillan, Terry

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Nash, Ogden

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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