Motivational Quotes

Life

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Byron, Lord

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

13.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

33.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Einstein, Albert

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo