Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gurney, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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

12.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

13.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

14.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

15.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sir Winston Churchill

18.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

26.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

28.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

John Lennon

30.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

31.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

32.

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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

39.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

44.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

49.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.