Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

- Henry J. Tillman

Best Quotes about Life

Live poor so you can die rich.

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.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Markham, Edwin

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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 web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo