Motivational Quotes

Life

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Life

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

20.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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 rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

31.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Dryden, John

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Harington, Donald

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