Motivational Quotes

Life

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Life

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

McMillan, Terry

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, German

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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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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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

33.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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 like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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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 hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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