Motivational Quotes

Life

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

- Hayes, Helen

Best Quotes about Life

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

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

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.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Pope John XXIII

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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 not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

William Shakespeare