Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Bible

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Shields, Carol

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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

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

Truman Capote

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

17.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

18.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

19.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

29.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

31.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

33.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

34.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Pliny The Elder

40.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

43.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

45.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.