Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Erickson, Lou

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Fieldes, Christopher

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

John Lennon

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

13.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

25.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Dimnet, Ernest

29.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

46.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian