Motivational Quotes

Life

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Oprah Winfrey

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

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

Bible

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Piatt, Don

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

12.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Antrim, Minna

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Dane, Frank

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.