Motivational Quotes

Life

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Woody Allen

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

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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.

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Presser, Ross

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Keller, Helen

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.