Motivational Quotes

Life

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Life

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Blake, William

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Augustine, St.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, 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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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 like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Newman, Peter C.