Motivational Quotes

Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

- Irving, John

Best Quotes about Life

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

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

McMillan, Terry

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Angelou, Maya

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Hume, David

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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

40.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Powell, Robert

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

Coriolanus III

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.