Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

McMillan, Terry

10.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

11.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

12.

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

Walpole, Horace

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

14.

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

Tomlin, Lily

15.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

18.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

27.

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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

36.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

41.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Shields, Carol

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Fields, W. C.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David